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mikaelgramont
on Jan 26, 2012
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PUT or POST: The REST of the Story
Agreed. Sessions and the limitations of forms are the biggest obstacles to 100% restful APIs used from web browsers.
NanoWar
on Jan 27, 2012
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You can however use XHR form submission[1] in the background (which is a good practice (better site responsiveness) after all) to use HTTP methods other than GET and POST.
[1] e.g.
http://jquery.malsup.com/form/#json
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